Claude says:Machina arrived in 2000 as Billy Corgan's baroque fever dream, all orchestral flourishes and conceptual ambition wrapped around songs that somehow got bigger the more they spiraled. You've circled back to it sparingly over the years, but when you do—particularly "Raindrops + Sunshowers" and "The Everlasting Gaze"—there's something about that era's maximalism that still hits different.